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Since I'm most probably will be buying one or more new HDMI cables thought it might be a good idea to poll you folks regarding the price range category, supposed quality and brand.

Please participate in this poll and followup comment segment.

Thanks!

Unless you have to have the "best" (according to the advertising hype) an HDMI cable from someplace like monoprice will work just fine. I avoid the high end cables as the "better" quality is debatable, especially at the length of cables I use (typically under 10 feet).

Price is only one reason. I also don't like their litigious nature. Going after Fenway Park or Pixar over a movie name is bad enough, but going after small businesses or places like Blue Jeans Cable is way overboard.

Personally, I generally get my cables from Amazon, but only because I have prime, so can get them about the same price or slightly more and get them faster. Otherwise, I'd use Monoprice.

Unless you need plenum grade cable, or a really long run, you don't need expensive cables. And that does not mean Monster expensive.

Stay away from the "better" cables. Unlike analog signals, which can be affected by the cable material's conductivity, HDMI cables transmit a binary signal. That means it's either on or it's not.

100% correct. The beauty of HDMI is that it is impossible to introduce any noise to the signal. Each pixel either works (and it shown 100% accurately), or it doesn't and that pixel is blank. You will never get a pixel that functions and is anything other than exactly what it should be. So if you hook up your HDMI cable and all the pixels are present and accounted for, then the cable is functioning at 100% and no other cable could provide better PQ.

Stay away from the "better" cables. Unlike analog signals, which can be affected by the cable material's conductivity, HDMI cables transmit a binary signal. That means it's either on or it's not.

I've been fighting digital-is-digital battles for years, and sonically, I've always won the argument that that may not be true.

I'm not suggesting to spend a lot of money here, but I've also heard the difference between optical and coaxial digital connections of a CD player to an amplifier, with the only change being the cable, so I'd be careful here.

There is no real-time, input-output, bit-for-bit analysis going on anywhere in our systems. We are always assuming the transfer is perfect, and that error correction will take care of the problem when it isn't. What if that's not the case?

You aren't listening to or watching the bits. You are listening to and watching algorithms that transfer those bits back to analog. Instead of all things being equal, things may not be equal.

I've been fighting digital-is-digital battles for years, and sonically, I've always won the argument that that may not be true.

I'm not suggesting to spend a lot of money here, but I've also heard the difference between optical and coaxial digital connections of a CD player to an amplifier, with the only change being the cable, so I'd be careful here.

There is no real-time, input-output, bit-for-bit analysis going on anywhere in our systems. We are always assuming the transfer is perfect, and that error correction will take care of the problem when it isn't. What if that's not the case?

You aren't listening to or watching the bits. You are listening to and watching algorithms that transfer those bits back to analog. Instead of all things being equal, things may not be equal.

Audio and video are different. For video, digital is definitely better, has to be. What you see when using an HDMI cable is exactly what is supposed to be seen. There can be no variation.

I've learned so much from all of you. I began using expensive Monster cables before the days of HDMI so I assumed there was varying levels of quality hence higher priced HDMI's meant better performance. Even thought I've always been more than happy with Monster it is gradifing to learn about lower price as good HDMI's.